The Obama press conference breakdown

3/6/12 3:46 PM EST

President Obama held his first solo press conference in 114 days today -- the longest stretch without a solo press conference since he became president (my colleague Donovan Slack has past counts here). For White House correspondents, that made getting called on all the more special.

And the award for exchange-of-the-day yields a two-way tie between Fox's Ed Henry:

PRESIDENT: Ed Henry.

HENRY: Thank you, Mr. President. I wanted to follow up on Israel and Iran because you have said repeatedly you have Israel’s back. And so I wonder why, three years in office, you have not visited Israel as President. And related to Iran and Israel, you have expressed concern about this loose talk of war, as you call it, driving up gas prices further. Your critics will say on Capitol Hill that you want gas prices to go higher because you have said before, that will wean the American people off fossil fuels, onto renewable fuels. How do you respond to that?

PRESIDENT: Ed, just from a political perspective, do you think the President of the United States going into reelection wants gas prices to go up higher? (Laughter.) Is that -- is there anybody here who thinks that makes a lot of sense?

...and CBS's Norah O'Donnell:

PRESIDENT: Norah O’Donnell. How are you?

O'DONNELL: Thank you, Mr. President. Today is Super Tuesday, so I wonder if you might weigh in on some of your potential Republican opponents. Mitt Romney has criticized you on Iran and said, “Hope is not a foreign policy.” He also said that you are “America’s most feckless President since Carter.” What would you like to say to Mr. Romney?